Growth of internet porn tells us more about ourselves than technology | John Naughton
The actual size of the sex industry online is difficult to estimate, but it is sophisticated and, in some senses, more honest than Google or Facebook
When the internet first entered public consciousness in the early 1990s, a prominent media entrepreneur described it as a “sit up” rather than a “lean back” medium. What she meant was that it was quite different from TV, which encouraged passive consumption by a species of human known universally as the couch potato. The internet, some of us fondly imagined, would be different; it would encourage/enable people to become creative generators of their own content.
Spool forward a couple of decades and we are sadder and wiser. On any given weekday evening
